Archives for
April 2012

Lee Hirsch, the director of the documentary Bully, has taken to Reddit to do one of the site's famous 'Ask Me Anything' crowdsourced interviews. The filmmaker will be answering questions about the film, the concept of bullying, and any other question...

Apple has issued a new software update that also serves to remove the most common variant of the Flashback Trojan. The update, which was released via Software Update on April 12, supersedes the previous software updates issued to patch the Java vulne...

Research in Motion was on the verge of adopting a strategy that would have opened the company's BlackBerry network to competing phones before a change in management led to its downfall, a new report claims. According to Reuters, former RIM co-CEO Jim...

It is fascinating how clever editing and a fresh soundtrack can dramatically change your perception of existing footage. Previously, we've collated movie trailers recut to resemble horror films. Now we're taking a look at popular television shows re-...

Meet the Digital Bolex D16, a small hand-held video camera inspired by the cinema-quality Bolex cameras popular in the 1960s and '70s. The Digital Bolex mimics 16mm film, which essentially provides independent filmmakers an affordable alternative to ...

Right now, the Curiosity Rover is sailing through space en route to the Red Planet. The one-ton, car-sized beast should hopefully land intact on the surface of Mars in early August, and we can't wait to see what it finds. Neither can NASA. But after ...

This is Geronimo -- a dog who is not only able to jump rope, but can jump double-dutch. Considering that a large majority of the staff at Mashable HQ are unable to do that, we are suitably impressed. The video was posted to YouTube on April 4th, but ...

Are you based in San Francisco and looking for your next career opportunity? If so, there may be a place for you on Mashable's growing sales team. We're looking for smart, resourceful candidates with ad sales and digital media experience for our Dire...

Twitter’s account verification is one of the most useful tools in the land of social networking. Considering the 140-character social network’s best feature is allowing celebrities to reach out to us normals, it’s pretty important that we know we’re ...

On the anniversary of the biggest shakeup in the online gaming world, poker in the digital age is a far cry from what it was just one year ago. But according to industry experts, poker may be back online in the next few years. This Sunday, April 15 -...

The world has fallen in love with Pinterest, the social network with beautiful images at its core. Now Pinterest users get to decide where they most love in the world. A crowdsourced project created by travel site First Choice -- living in an interac...

With April showers, come May flowers and for many, May flowers also come with itchy eyes, runny noses, sneezing, and general pollen-induced misery. Seasonal allergies are on the way, like it or not. So, if you see the beautiful sights of spring throu...

Spotify will soon allow brands to create their own soundtracks using the streaming music platform. As reported by AdAge and confirmed by Spotify, brands including AT&T, Reebok, and Intel will launch apps featuring their custom playlists. According to...

Even the most LOL-worthy text message is not worth risking your life to read while driving. That's the message of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, or as you may know it, April. The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) catchy slogan f...

Move over, Feminist Ryan Gosling -- there's a new Tumblr battling sexism. On Wednesday, 16 undergraduate students at Duke University launched Who Needs Feminism?, a campaign that encourages feminist and gender egalitarian discussion over social media...

No, this isn't the latest Google Doodle celebrating the anniversary of DOS. Instead, it's an imagining of what Google would look like if it was invented circa 1986. The design, by Squirrel-Monkey.com, has been kicking around for a few months, but an ...

The HTC Titan II is HTC's first LTE Windows Phone, and one of just two LTE Windows Phones currently on the market. Debuting alongside the Nokia Lumia 900 on April 8th, the handset is HTC's followup to the original Titan, a massive Windows Phone the c...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has completed filming episodes for his upcoming TV show "The World Tomorrow," which will air on Tuesday, April 17, on the Russia Today (RT) network. Assange, who is the subject of a grand jury investigation in the U.S...

Scientists from the University of Cambridge are using robotics from the LEGO Mindstorms robot set to help produce samples of synthetic bone tissue. The team uses hydroxyapatite-gelatin composites to create the synthetic bone, which has low energy cos...

Liz Elting is co-founder and co-CEO of TransPerfect, the world’s largest privately held provider of language and business services. The world’s population reached 7 billion in Oct. 2011, and according to an IDC report, one in every seven of those peo...

Back in 2003, when blogs were just catching on with the mainstream, college student Matthew Cerrone started a GeoCities site called MetsBlog.com to track his favorite baseball team. Fast-forward nine years and he's turned the hobby into a full-time j...

News of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's engagement rocked the interwebs Friday -- and briefly nabbed the top trending spot on Twitter. The fact that "Brangelina" are finally making it official was confirmed by Pitt's manager Cynthia Pett-Dante. She to...

Aside from the time you purposefully waste at work -- checking Facebook or playing Draw Something, as the kids do -- there's a lot of other stuff that can slow you down at the office. The productivity of a "knowledge worker" (read: non-farmer) hinges...

Contact lens wearers can get a new perspective on their environment with the latest vision technology -- contact lenses that let the wearer focus on two fields of view at once. Wearers can keep an eye on a projected image while their surrounding scen...

Social media connectivity and the digitization of news have not squashed American fervor for local news, a Pew study says. Nearly three quarters of adults are consistently plugged into local news -- so much so that 32% of survey participants say the ...

Mashable
is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. Powered by its own proprietary technology, Mashable is the go-to source for tech, digital culture and entertainment content for its dedicated and influential audience around the globe.